Whenever this topic comes up, I think a lot of people assume this is some elaborate ML algorithm, but I believe it's really just "trending things go up, _sometimes_ categorized and targeted."

It's a really basic algorithm that captures the equivalent of groupthink.

> The problem is that these sites have optimized their algorithms to show you content which provoke a reaction, they don't care if positive or toxic.

Twitter should learn from Tiktok and Spotify. Their algorithms work very differently.

Spotify has allowed me to discover some great songs just by creating a Song Radio from a song I liked. And it has also broadened the genres I listed. And spending 5 minutes on Tiktok's For You Page can help me feel better after a stressful day.

On the other hand 5 minutes on Twitter can easily lead to more stress in my case.

But FB doesn’t randomly put “toxic” content in my feed. It’s because I’m either following “toxic” news originations or someone showed your crazy uncle how to get on line and you accepted his friend request. My feed has pictures of family, dumb non political memes, people talking about sports or “uplifting sayings and scripture verses” (I usually unfollow people who post too much of the latter)